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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 3548441, member: 10461&quot;]I didn&#039;t see VF there in any event.&nbsp; I expected F12, really.&nbsp; Tickled with the F15 straight crossover.</p><p><br /></p><p>That coin is not <i>quite</i> the DB cent I want.&nbsp; It is a compromise coin based on my budget.&nbsp; But I do like it and it does meet my basic standards.</p><p><br /></p><p>Though it might not have straight-graded, I sometimes wish I had kept this one, which was a local detector find dug at a very early plantation site by one of my prolific relic hunting buddies.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]942961[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]942962[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Several of these S-166 cents with the distinctive reverse die break have been found in this area.&nbsp; I speculate that a keg of them must have been shipped to Savannah or more likely Darien, Georgia, by around 1800 or so.&nbsp; This one was found on St. Simons Island.</p><p><br /></p><p>The photos were taken before any real conservation was done on the coin.&nbsp; Aside from basic soil removal, that is essentially what it looked like when it came out of the ground.</p><p><br /></p><p>That fantastically preserved 1798 cent was not the only exciting <a href="https://www.icollector.com/Triangular-cut-piece-of-a-silver-splash-ingot-70-2-grams-marked-with-a-crowned-Mexican-style-cro_i15945954" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.icollector.com/Triangular-cut-piece-of-a-silver-splash-ingot-70-2-grams-marked-with-a-crowned-Mexican-style-cro_i15945954" rel="nofollow">discovery</a> my friend made in that area, which had also once been the site of an old Spanish mission.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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